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<span class=large>THE PROVERBS</span>
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CHAPTER 27
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Let another man praise thee—A prudent man foreseeth evil—Hell and destruction are never full.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/1a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Boasting."><span class='smallcaps'>Boast</span></a> not thyself of to <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/27/1b" mark="b" type="A" title="James 4: 13 (13-14).">morrow</a>; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
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Let another man <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Boasting; TG Humility.">praise</a> thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
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A stone <i>is</i> heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool’s <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Esth. 3: 5.">wrath</a> <i>is</i> heavier than them both.
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Wrath <i>is</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Cruelty.">cruel</a>, and <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/27/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Anger.">anger</a> <i>is</i> outrageous; but who <i>is</i> able to stand before envy?
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Open <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 28: 23.">rebuke</a> <i>is</i> better than secret love.
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Faithful <i>are</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 141: 5; D&C 121: 43 (43-44).">wounds</a> of a <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/27/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Friendship.">friend</a>; but the <sup>c</sup><a href="prov/27/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Sam. 20: 9; Luke 22: 48 (47-48).">kisses</a> of an enemy <i>are</i> <sup>d</sup><a href="prov/27/6d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Deceit.">deceitful</a>.
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The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
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As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so <i>is</i> a man that wandereth from his place.
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Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so <i>doth</i> the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.
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Thine own <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Sam. 9: 1.">friend</a>, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: <i>for</i> better <i>is</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/27/10b" mark="b" type="C" title="Prov. 18: 24; TG Neighbor.">neighbour</a> <i>that is</i> near than a brother far off.
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My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.
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A prudent <i>man</i> foreseeth the evil, <i>and</i> hideth himself; <i>but </i>the simple pass on, <i>and</i> are punished.
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Take his <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 20: 16.">garment</a> that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/27/13b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR foreign woman.">strange</a> woman.
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He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/14a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse.">curse</a> to him.
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A <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 19: 13.">continual</a> dropping in a very rainy day and a <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/27/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="Prov. 21: 19; 3 Ne. 11: 29.">contentious</a> woman are alike.
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Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, <i>which</i> bewrayeth <i>itself.</i>
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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Friendship.">friend</a>.
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Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Cor. 9: 7.">eat</a> the fruit thereof: so he that <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/27/18b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Ne. 21: 23; 2 Ne. 6: 13; D&C 133: 11 (10-11).">waiteth</a> on his master shall be honoured.
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As in water face <i>answereth</i> to face, so the heart of man to man.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/20a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE The spirit world, place of the dead, is never filled up.">Hell</a> and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/27/20b" mark="b" type="A" title="Eccl. 1: 8.">satisfied</a>.
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<i>As</i> the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so <i>is</i> a man to his praise.
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Though thou shouldest <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/22a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR pound, rub.">bray</a> a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, <i>yet</i> will not his foolishness depart from him.
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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/23a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 5: 59 (37-60); D&C 20: 53 (38-60).">flocks</a>, <i>and</i> look well to thy herds.
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For <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/27/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 9: 30; Jacob 2: 18 (18-19).">riches</a> <i>are</i> not for ever: and doth the crown <i>endure</i> to every generation?
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The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
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The lambs <i>are</i> for thy clothing, and the goats <i>are</i> the price of the field.
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And <i>thou shalt have</i> goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and <i>for</i> the maintenance for thy maidens.
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